How to sound British | How to speak with a British accent
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- Learn how to speak with a British accent and how to sound British when you speak English.
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I am watching this in case I ever get casted for a Harry Potter movie and I need to sound British 😂
Good reason to watch my video :)
Harry Pottaaa * 😂😂
tRaiNInG fOr thE bALLeT pOtTaH
Aakif Khan 😂😂
Harry pottahhh....so am I ...I searched it to sound more like Hermonie and understand Sherlock's speaking
*"UK is such a big country"*
*"Laughs in russian."*
*Laughs in Canadian*
Laughs in China
laughs in USSR(1/6 of earth land)
laughs in New Zealand, oh wait
-cries in Ukrainian-
no one:
not even a single soul:
me 3am deep on yt watching this in case i get casted for harry potter or for when i shift to hogwarts:
Same
no one:
Me every year wanting to be African,Indian,Japanese,British,Spanish
Same Hufflepuff in the house 💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤
@@taesgucci7570 how nice!!! one of my friends is a hufflepuff, i am a ravenclaw and second house is slytherin ;)
I am watching this to sound british in my dr lol
Ahem,
“It’s chewsday, innit bruv?”
Now I need my bo'ohw'o'wo'er
@@toazethegecko omg I’m dying this is so funny haha
wwoot? stoup/joking
Mate* it is
Watch you got a chips
I can definitely hear both the British and American accents
Me too
fuck off jeniffer
@@zenaluckybrown3370 Was it necessary to say that?
Zena Luckybrown someone’s mad
@@Atruis it was very necessary
I watch Harry Potter a lot, and Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton) has me saying “Pottah” instead of “Potter” 😂
Good :)
PoTaH
I also mentioned that)
yea😂
POTTAH! 😂
Firstly I learned American accent,now I’m studying British English because of One Direction
Which American accent did you learn? The mid western/heartland one is likely the most versatile with little bit of everything. Southern accents are cool but way overplayed on TV and in movies. I absolutely loath the thick NY/NJ/Boston accents and the valley girl BS.
@@Orange6921 I think I have a Californian Accent .
THE WAY I SCREAMED BECAUSE SAME HELLO???? BRO I LEARNED THE AMERICAN ACCENT A FEW YEARS AGO AND THEN AROUND 2020-21 I GOT INTO ONE DIRECTION AND WAS TRYNA LEARN BRITISH ACCENT BUT DIDNT ACTUALLY END UP LEARNING SO IM HERE AGAIN BUT HELLO WHAT ARE THE FUCKING CHANCES IM SCREAMING BAFIGLW GFLELVEL ELVGEI
If I have not nailed any Hermione Granger's lines, I will not stop learning this language at all.
'Language.'
Meee tooo
Grangers line in ML ?
I'LL COMPOST THE GREATEST SONATA FROM YOUR CORPSE
update??
Most people: learning this because they speak a different language or for a play or something
Me: wanting to sound like Louis Tomlinson
Haha, fair enough!
S A M E i feel you bro
HhhHaha i every video i watch i always saw a one direcrection comment
Same haha
Same lol
As a Canadian watching this I’ve come to the realization that the Canadian accent is a mix between the general American accent and general English accent.
Interesting!
I’d say the stereotypacle “tim hortons lumberjack” type accent is a burly version of the New England accent (Pennsylvanian New Yorker etc)
That's the australian accent.
For me canadian accent sound more like american and australians sound more like UK
Yeah that's right,i noticed when listened to Avril Lavigne that's she pronounced in songs some words like a British
So happy to find a teacher who gone through the hard journey of learnng different accent and being perfect at it! Thank you Agnieszka xxx
Thank you :)
@@english_with_agaI only realised today that You are not english/british and from other countries and I was sure You are English.
"Not Me Being British And Watching this Incase I Dont Sound British Enough For the Harry Potter Casts"
Don’t ! Harry Potter is super demonic
A couple other tips I learned:
- Whenever a word ends in an 'o' (ex. "No"), pronounce it with a slight 'w' sound at the end.
- When spelling words out with an 'or' in it, many of those words translate to have 'our' instead. (For example, favor -> favour, behavior -> behaviour, etc.)
I'm American btw 😉
Great tips, thanks for sharing :)
color -> colour
*Nauurrrr* *Gaurrrr*
@@estrellaeverlast9251 that's the spelling we use here in Jamaica. "Colour"
Hi
I'm sorry but I just couldn't resist saying this.. It looks like you have 2 horns because of the mirror frame behind you
Rashmi Madan what is unseen is now seen
😅
So true
@@emeow-4383 And you can't unsee it.
@@idasettenbrino7970 yes!!! 😅😂😂😂😂😂
I'm having my English oral exams for my finals in four days so this helps me a lot since I always mix up American and British English. Thank you so much!
Amazing, glad I could help! Good luck with your exams!
I kept watching english videos here in youtube everyday, like literally I do it every, single, day for entertainment only, and I eventually adopted the way they, and you speak. Thank you❤️
Her: I can't speak american accent
Also her: nails american accent xd
Thanks! I was in Houston, TX a couple of years ago, ordering 'water' in an American accent. They were not impressed...
5-Minute Language hah! I’m from Texas and around Houston and stuff everyone is just like, “you can say something in an American accent? Cool. So can I “
@Ada I was only there for a couple of nights so only had time for a couple of neighbourhood bars, which were super fun, and the Nasa centre. Would love to see more of the city one day!
If we HD x
@Rosida Andriyana jh
I'm just watching this so I can sound like One Direction. Im gonna learn an Irish accent next for Niall
Good reason to learn :)
I am also learning it to sound like Harry Styles and Thomas Shelby 😂
SAME BYE
Oi oiii directioners 🥳❤️😄
Do they still do the accents when nobody else is around?
No. I wasn’t around one once, and I didn’t hear the accent.
@@JohnSmith-ns6dp thanks John
No, you know we kind of just shut them off :)
@@JohnSmith-ns6dp very helpful
Hey! As soon as I started watching the video I found this lovely coincidence, I happen to have Polish roots and I completely love your name. I'm also planning on naming my future daughter Agnieszka. Great video! Take care of yourself and I wish you the best.
As an English speaker, this started to get more interesting when you eventually got on to mentioning intonation. They rhythm and melody is essentially what regionalises us in the UK as I'm sure is the case in other countries. For those facing the north/south divide (a class distinction as much as anything) this is the area of focus they would need to place most of their time, I suspect. It is not enough to simply pronounce grass as 'grarss' as you outlined, it is the flow of the sentence and the weight given to words that will mark you out ultimately.
"sorry i cant speak in an american accent"
*proceeds prononces better perfectly in american accent*
haha, thanks
I laughed so hard at that 😂
Wow thank you so much for this video i'am from iran and i'm in B1 level and i'm practicing my british accent everyday and for improve my accent i'm watching (lusifer,peacky blinders that was so helpful for me) and you speack amazingly well.
One thing i wanna say about you is your hair's soo butiful❤️❤️❤️
Now I'm british.
Oi mate, you lookin cheeky today. How about we go and catch us some fish n' chips?
Oi, bruv. Have you got thee papA money?
@@rob_olmstead sounds jolly mate
Alright time to watch every single Harry Potter movie!
I come here after watching Harry Potter!😂😂😂
This is the best, most complete, accurate, clear videos of British accents that I've seen. I'm from the US. I'm no expert, but I think at 5:36 into this video she accurately pronounces 'father', but 3 seconds later uses a 'f' instead of a 'th' where she's smiling and moving her bottom lip, otherwise perfect
Great video ! Very well explained as usual !!
Busuu, LingBodie, etc ... are also very useful web resources for language learning.
Agnieszka ... You're awesome! ❤️
In America we send children to speech therapy if they do not pronounce any of their "r" sounds by age 8.
We do that in slovakia xd
Shawn Cezanne or s
Nobody cares what you do in bloody america, you ignorant american.
Katelyn the Kreator i-
Katelyn the Kreator what
Me- can't
My English teacher- COUUUAAAANNN'T
Me- ok jeez... m8...
I just wanna feel more British today 🌝🌚
Yup we wanna sound more like some federal boys 😎
Tubbo made me watch this
@@meowreace8496 And Wilber made me watch this
george made me watch this
Tommy made me watch this
When I was little I used to ( and still do) watch a lot of American tv shows and movies from which I developed an American accent. I can do many other accents like a British accent or an Indian accent and Arabian accent etc. I wanted to show my mom this video because she wanted to know how to to a British accent because she works with British/American people
i honestly just wanted to make sure that i wasnt going to offend someone when i showed it off.
Thank you so much, my daughter is engaged to a wonderful British citizen and he’s a bit homesick because he’s “bean” working here for 2 years. I’ve been trying to use a British accent around him to make him laugh😊 and you have really helped out!! *bean is how I’ve been using the word been. I hope it’s correct??
You clarified alot in your video! Thanks!
Nice little video. Picked up a lot of info that I will use for sure. Thank you for making these.
Instead of sleeping I spent the night learning how to be British now I can’t focus on school
Trying to sound like Millie too?
@@vampirelover2087 yes 😭
i really enjoyed your video and i think you have done a great job learning this accent. ( whatever nationality you are ). thanks for the tips !
Maybe she's British
I'm originally Polish :)
It's amazing. Am a first timer trying to fix myself in british English. I hope to improve soonest.
I have a play I’m supposed to be in and I really needed to have a British accent for my role, this really helps thank you
the way she said "better" with the american T's had some strong valley girl energy lmao
I looovvee that accent!! The proper English is gorgeous
i love it when you tried to hold in your laugh when you said duty, you are such a great and funny educator.-- thank you.
Haha, thanks! I appreciate it :)
Thank you so much, so easy to follow. Trying to improve my pronouncing of words cz Im from NJ but went to school and college in MD so I have a bit of a southern slang mix. Also I will be getting an administrative position next year.
I want to thank you for this video which is helping to learn the British accent , I from Kenya and I was hoping whether you would do another.....like a part 2 cause the first one was really nice and I am so determined to learn the British accent
when i was a kid i used to practice to sound like a British speaker as i watched a lot of BBC shows like Charlie and Lola. i definitely love how they sounded like and i loved to imitate how they speak and show it off to my siblings 😂 now I'm trying to practice once again because my dream is to travel to London ❤️ thanks for sharing this!
Thanks for sharing your story! Hope you get to travel to London soon!
Well explained, very clearly and simply. Thank you for your teaching
Omg you are so under rated .you deserve 10 million subscribers
This helped me . British is the only thing I’m trying to speak right now
Same
Same
Im American, and I feel like how you pronounce our English words is great! Thanks for the insight, you're a great teacher!
I actually have cousins from UK and I want a accent from British I’m new and I’m really looking forward to your channel❤️
Wonderful video to learn about british accent and i hope that i'll speak more confidently british language than i think 😊
This video is enormously helpful. I can finally take the piss out of my British friends. Thank you.
There are always a few words that give me trouble, such as “that is all” and “brilliant”. There is something about words that end with or contain the letter “L”, as well as words that end with the letter “T” that are impossible for me to get out without sounding like I’m trying to be British... Any advice?
(I was going to leave a comment about the frame of the mirror behind you making it look like you have horns, but it looks like someone already did that.)
Thank you :3 , In my country we have more American accent but I want to learn British accent too
usłyszałem twój akcent i rzekome nauki - dziękuję, ale nie skorzystam. Mówisz po prostu za wooooolllnnoooooo :)
Not me trying to get a British accent so I could become a British Minecraft player-
I KNEW IT LMAO
AHHAHHA SAME
...
Just killed a woman, feeling good.
@@Silliestg00s3 DFNBHSJ
I found the comment i was looking for!
Looks like I'm binge watching Peppa pig now-
(I'm trying to learn how to do Tommy's accent)
OH MY GOD I REALLY THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE HOLY CRAP-
Nottingham
is where Tommy is from
If you are looking for that search up a Nottingham accent to learn from :>
samee
OMG sameeee
Tubbo made watch this😳😳😳
Your video is really interesting...the "Received English" is taught in the public schools. British English speakers are non-rhotic while American English "General American" or "Newscaster speech" is rhotic. However, New Yorkers and Bostonians generally are non-rhotic speakers...some southern accents are non-rhotic too. The original British Accent was close to Standard American rhotic speech. When the lower classes in England began to rise in status during the Industrial Revolution, they devised an accent that would make them sound more cultured which was the start of "Received Pronunciation". So the American accent is actually the older accent! You sound wonderful, btw. I was in broadcasting for a time, so I had to study and rid myself of my NY accent.
You mean that Americans have been speaking with an older British English accent since the American Revolution? That’s brilliant! I read a book about how the expressions and phrases Americans have always used are in fact British slang. I’m American and anything that I learn about the history of British people, their language makes me giddy, and proud. British English is connected to American English language and are very similar. Am I missing something and saying that incorrectly? I read a book about Americans are not aware that they are not only speaking American English they’re speaking British English and using British slang. That just makes me feel better and quite chuffed. I subscribe to britbox and I have learned so much in 6 years from watching the shows EastEnders and Coronation Street. I’ve had a fondness for British language and slang for most of my life. I could share the shows I watched as a teenager, but it’d take up more space.
Thankyou so much ma'am for the awesome tips and recommendation.. ❤️
Thank you madam I wish you could do more videos on the British English. Bravo
You're American accent is perfect
haha, thank you :)
Hi
@@english_with_aga hi
*Yuor'e
Many thanks Agnieszka for your advice!
THANK YOU SO MUCH, I will have my trinity exam in a few days, and this helped a lot.❤
Thank you for this video I learned a lot on how to speak a little bit of British because of this video.
I'm Chinese I can speak both accents but I can not control it on my own in many cases... But I do speak American accent more than British one. Lol. I hope this video can help me build British accent.
it's quarantine and i'm tryna sound like emma watson and tom felton-
mood
Thanks for posting this! I’m voicing a few Characters in a Thomas fan project and needed this.
Great lesson Agnieszka!!! Cheers 😍
"Uk is such a big country". Cries in Lesotho
I’m trying to do this for video. Thank you for your help.
I come from Asia but I just realized I have an American accent!!! Thank you so much for you tips! Was very helpful!
I thought there are two Horns on your head, after finding my reading glasses came two know that its a Mirror Frame in background.
Her: "There's no such thing as a British accent"
Her later on in the video: "Sorry, I don't speak with an American accent"
Me: "Why is there even a word called ACCENT?"
Im chilean, tomorrow, I have English speaking test, and this is the first video that appeared.
Thank you, now vemos mañana
I could just listen to you talk all day.
Doing this so I can go to my new school and act British 😎
Is there any specific video or series you would recommend to learn British Accent ?
watch the Harry Potter movies, they helped me a lot with developing my british accent or the short way you could just watch Hermione granger compilations .
Thank you SO much ! Your explanations are very clear
You're welcome :)
Thanks very much! I love those tips!
I have to voice act with a british accent so I'm trying to quickly learn this before tomorrow😂😂😂
i just want to walk into my new school next year and speak british and pretend harry styles is my uncle and see how long it lasts 💀💀💀
Thank you this helped in my play.
Great video thanks!
Amazing. Dziękuję :)
Proszę!
Thank you. This video was so enjoyable.
Dzieki bardzo Agnieszka to bylo informatywnie
This really helped me tysm❤❤
Where’s my british gang at!!!
Bri' 'ish
pov: you're harrie or louie trying to sound british like them
Literally me.
How did you know!?
@@vashappeninash176 I know everything 😼
@@ceciliacoronel1354 oh 🧐🧐🧐🧐
I needed to learn for my dnd character LOL
this video was very helpful and now I can speak British-English >:3
I speak American English but in some formal events I prefer the British accent.. in early schools I had British teachers. You are lovely... ❤❤❤❤
British English is so cute and beautiful i just love it i
have a mixed accent between American and British and i want the British side to take over lol
I don’t get how people want a british accent,i have a strong british accent and I absolutely despise it
I am British, you’ve got it spot on well done! I agree there are a lot of accents in Britain, I’m from southern England
Does she sound native to you? I'm wondering what her accent sounds to natives
@@gabrieltheotonio8182 yes, because where i'm from the majority of people try to sound like us, but if i were from Scotland she would be changing a few words and sounding different, same goes for someone from New York and someone from Texas.
Thank you for learning us the difference accent about American accent and uk British accent am very excited
Thank you:) Also I just wanted to say I have a perfect show to watch where they speak British
Thank you for this video. I learned what cuppa means from a TV show I was watching, and then I started reading Harry Potter, and so I recognized a few words. I want to learn to speak in a British accent for fun (and it may be useful in the career I plan on persuing in the future).
Good luck!
mobile instead of cell phone. Lift instead of elevator. Bin instead of trash. "Carriage" instead of garage. pudding instead of dessert. biscuit instead of cookie.
Pudding instead of dessert?
A very suspicious eggplant yes that’s how I say it (I’m british)
Zack Russel Right! Carriage instead of garage!? Carriage instead of car. Yes,I know, sounds odd at first but then I personally find American English illogical. A carriage on a train is a carriage in English, in American English it’s a car! I know! Flashlight makes laugh too, because you know, it doesn’t flash! In English it’s a torch! And some torches have a “flash” function! It makes them flash!
I say mobile and phone hardly ever say cell phone. I usually say lift but occasionally say elevator. I always say bin and not trash. I always say garage never said carriage for a garage. I usually say desert but may also say pudding. Also biscuit are the ones that go in milk and stuff you know what a mean and cookies are the ones with chocolate chips in them ((I sometimes call cookies biscuits and biscuits cookies.)) I am british :P
I knew it was biscuit instead of cookie because in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix McGonagall tells Harry to have a biscuit.
This was very very helpful
Really, thank you
Thank you! You are awesome!!
I wonder what Elizabeth I, Queen of England, would have sounded like. She is my favorite woman in history.
cause she's THEE queen innit?
@@epicfilms4life507 Innit as isn't right?? 😂😂
@@SunshinePrecuious lol yep 😂😂